DISPERSION COEFFICIENT


Meaning of DISPERSION COEFFICIENT in English

A measure of the spreading of a flowing substance due to the nature of the porous medium (and specific substance or fluid properties), with interconnected channels distributed at random in all directions. Also equals the sum of the Coefficient of Mechanical Dispersion and the Coefficient of Molecular Diffusion in a porous medium.

Environmental engineering English vocabulary.      Английский словарь экологического инжиниринга.